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Exclusive Report Learn how you could make a living playing poker. While some players will happily move site for a percentage point higher rakeback deal [what is rakeback?], there are many other ways in which savvy players are improving their profits. By using a combination of small factors which can improve your profits, the compounding [...]
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We’ve all been thrashed with the ever popular “10 tips for winning something” and “5 tricks for becoming a better something else” at some point or another by now. These articles and guides are all well and good, but at the end of the day it’s a case of seeing the same Poker information in [...]
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I’ve made a new friend at Lucky Chances. His name is Django. (Pronounced Jango.) He’s a young, instantly likable player, very sharp and well-respected. The first dozen times we played together was in early 2007 when I played a few times a week for a few months. It was right after my book came out. [...]
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Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. In this way, I train myself. Breathing in, I am aware that I am sitting at a poker table. Breathing out, I smile to the poker universe. Breathing in, I watch the cards being dealt. [...]
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A lot of people ask me what the best way to improve their poker game is and for many of them it would be if they quit playing poker. But there’s another group of people who may be decent poker players but they feel like they’re stagnating. They don’t feel like they’re improving. This list [...]
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By Tommy Angelo My mom used to tell me, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” This is such a profound and righteous philosophy. And I’ve stuck to it. For example, when I eat popcorn, I think it’s worth doing, so I do it well. With the fingertips of one hand, I can pick [...]
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I received this comment on a post I did some time ago titled The Ultimate Secret to Winning Poker. It was so special I had to highlight it for my readers. Actually, there is a secret. I found it and I can make money on it, but the problem is that this secret is so [...]
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Words lag behind what they label. For example, the blogosphere was well past infancy before the word “blogosphere” existed. Bad beats were around long before the term “bad beat” was. And “the universe” was here for billions of years before it got its name. So it’s no surprise, given how fast poker is changing and [...]
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Much is made in poker literature about defending your blinds but less is said about defending your button. It is very important that you try and play as many pots as possible when on the button, as you can use the sledgehammer of position to really put your opponents to the test. In the current [...]
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The always articulate Haley Hintze left a comment on a post I made the other day about online poker being rigged which I wanted to respond to. I felt that it would make a better post than a comment so here we go. Hiya, Bill! This an example where I think Ed is serving the [...]
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When we see these big guaranteed tournaments it’s often easy to look at the number of people who registered and the amount contributed to the prize pool and make a determination about whether the guarantee was met or not. While, technically, from a player’s perspective this is all that matters, from a business perspective there [...]
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Yesterday I talked about the importance of not spewing chips and today I wanted to explore the opposite side of that equation in terms of how to make your opponents put more chips into the pot when they’re behind. It’s the hallmark of winning players at the higher levels that they know how to eek [...]
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One of the things that prevents many people from moving up limits in poker is a failure to realize how costly seemingly small mistakes are. I thought I would try to demonstrate what a bankroll killer small mistakes can be via a few examples. Let’s jump right in and start laying out some constants in [...]
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First off let me aplogize that I didn’t get something up on Monday. The HD on my Mac decided to take a dumper and I had to learn real quickly how you put new hardware into a Mac. Much of this is written from memory of what I wrote before my HD went busto. I’m [...]
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I ran across a post the other day that I wanted to share. I was looking for an artile on odds on Wikipedia and came across Poker probability (Texas hold ‘em). It’s really an excellent work on how probability fits into the game of poker. It’s not exactly a page turner but if you can [...]
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About Bill’s Poker Blog Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
After Party Poker I spent two years living in Thailand and travelling around South East Asia. I'm currently working at the World Poker Tour in Irvine, Ca. working on exciting projects taking online poker to the next level. More about Bill Follow Me Around The WorldA semi-complete list of my travels |
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